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Glick puts expansion on agenda: new exec to revive growth at aging apartment business.

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It can be intimidating to be tapped by a legend and charged with growing one of central Indiana's best-known companies.

But David Barrett, three weeks into his role as executive vice president of Gene B. Glick Co. and less than half the age of its still-working founder, says he isn't the least bit nervous.

The former corporate counsel for Emmis Communications Corp. says his experience at the media company and as an attorney at Ice Miller LLP has prepared him for the position.

"A good corporate lawyer would relish the opportunity of running a company," Barrett, 37, said.

And he's jumped fight into his job of reviving expansion efforts for the 60-year-old apartment company that has intentionally avoided expansion since the late 1980s.

"Over the years, we've discussed getting back in business, but each time we found the same things about the market we didn't like," said Dean Donnelson, Glick's senior vice president of asset management.

"We probably sat on the sidelines too long" he added. "But we didn't have anyone whose full-time job was new business development. So David will allow us to focus on that now"

The Gene B. Glick Co., which employs about 600, has 80 apartment communities in 11 states, most of...

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